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Wave and Offshore Wind Resource in the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands
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Coastal environments such as islands have unique opportunities for renewable energy resources. This work explores the wave and offshore wind energy potential for the U.S. Pacific Ocean Minor Outlying Islands, including Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island. A numerical wave model based on WAVEWATCH III and SWAN (both are NWS / NOAA models) was developed, validated, and executed to generate a 32-year hindcast dataset suitable for resource characterization for each island. A complementary offshore wind resource characterization is provided for the same time period based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Reanalysis v5 (ERA5). Each island has five netcdf files: 1. wave_[island]_annual_J_map.nc: the data used to generate the map of annual averaged omnidirectional wave power (J [kW/m]) 2. wave_[island]_100m_IEC: six IEC parameters at 100m isobath from 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 3. wave_[island]_5km_IEC: six IEC parameters at 5km from the shoreline 1979/01/01 to 2020/12/31, output hourly 4. wind_island_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc: wind speed timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within a 60 km radius of the island (m/s) 1979/01/01 to 2010/12/31, output hourly 5. wind_island_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc: wind direction timeseries from ERA5 at 100 m above sea level within a 60 km radius of the island (degrees) 1979/01/01 to 2010/12/31, output hourly

Baker IslandECMWFERA5Howland IslandJarvis IslandJohnston AtollKingman ReefMarine Energy Resource Assessment and CharacterizationPacific OceanPalmyra AtollSouth PacificWake Islandcharacterizationnumerical modeloffshoreoffshore windresourcewavewave energywave heightwindwind directionwind speed
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Dcat Issued2020-12-31T07:00:00Z
Dcat Modified2024-11-18T20:26:12Z
Dcat Publisher NamePacific Northwest National Laboratory
Guidhttps://data.openei.org/submissions/8074
Harvest Object Idb7cbc533-c9b7-49f1-993e-e3efc99a20c9
Harvest Source Id4eb7107f-a2b1-40e3-b36a-8161aa98a56e
Harvest Source TitleOpenEI Data Portal
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Files
  • wave_jarvis_annual_J_map.nc

  • wave_baker_howland_annual_J_map.nc

  • wave_wake_annual_J_map.nc

  • wave_johnston_annual_J_map.nc

  • wave_palmyra_kingman_annual_J_map.nc

  • wave_jarvis_100m_IEC.nc

  • wave_jarvis_5km_IEC.nc

  • wave_baker_howland_100m_IEC.nc

  • wave_wake_100m_IEC.nc

  • wave_palmyra_kingman_5km_IEC.nc

  • wave_johnston_5km_IEC.nc

  • wave_wake_5km_IEC.nc

  • wave_baker_howland_5km_IEC.nc

  • wave_johnston_100m_IEC.nc

  • wave_palmyra_kingman_100m_IEC.nc

  • wind_baker_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_howland_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_jarvis_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_johnston_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_kingman_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_palmyra_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_wake_100mASL_windspeed_timeseries.nc

  • wind_baker_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_howland_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_jarvis_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_johnston_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_kingman_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_palmyra_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • wind_wake_100mASL_winddirection_timeseries.nc

  • READ_ME.txt